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Creating the Creative Climate - Part 6

But probably the single most important trait an executive can acquire is that of personal enthusiasm for ideas. Be positive in your approach to problems, and to the problems of solving them. An enthusiastic, confident-appearing leader can do more to set a creative example or attitude in a company or department than all the special procedures or techniques put together.

This does not, of course, mean you should blind yourself to anyone's shortcomings, or forget anything you have learned about evaluating and judging ideas. An executive who could not sensibly evaluate an idea could be a positive danger to his company and this, of course, is just the opposite of what you should be trying to accomplish. But it is just as dangerous to operate on the antiquated theories that workers can't understand your problems and therefore can't possibly contribute ideas, or that everything must be judged by how it will appear on the quarterly balance sheet.

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